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2/n to escape the Nazi raid by getting out of the truck on which he was loaded with his mother, who promptly pushed him away.
2/n The “Hungarian Schindler” acquired a civil career after the Treaty of Trianon, but in 1943 he again decided to join the Hungarian Defence Forces. Ocskay himself, due to his noble origins and Western relations, was persecuted. He left the country in 1948 and lived in the US
2/n all but emptied the building of Jews while 18-year-old Hanni was at the doctor’s with a badly injured finger. By the time she returned, the family she’d been living with — friends of her late parents, who had been sickly — were gone. Now the Gestapo was back. Hanni held her
2/n The escape of the last remaining prisoners of the Novogrudok Ghetto in Belarus after 2 years of Nazi occupation took place on September 26, 1943. It was organized from the barracks of the closed-type ghetto through a 200-metre-long tunnel which the prisoners dug themselves.
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2/n Sister Sara opened the Working Girls’ Home to help those being displaced. In March of 1944, German troops began their occupation of Hungary. Sister Sara, realizing the extreme danger now confronting all Hungarians, offered herself as a victim-soul for her fellow Sisters of
2/n in the Wehrmacht. He was briefly held up on propaganda posters as the “ideal German soldier” ironically.
2/n Now, she and her twin sister Miriam pressed close as Nazi guards shouted orders in German.
2/n Clary was the youngest of 14 children in an Orthodox Jewish family. At the age of twelve, he began a career singing professionally on French radio and studied art at the Paris Drawing School At the age of 16, Robert Widerman was deported on September 25, 1942 from Drancy by 
2/n Schulte, as one of the country's top industrial leaders, had frequent contact with high German government and military officials, as well as other industrialists who had access to important information. Schulte was independent and strong-willed, and felt that the Nazis were
2/n This camp supplied the German occupiers in the Minsk area with food, tools and other items. At the same time, it supported the process of mass murder: forced labourers had to clean the gas vans and sort through the belongings of the murdered. 
2/n children with permission of the camp doctor and of SS officials in December 1944. Beginning with a group of Dutch Jewish children, the “diamond” children*, whom she found outside her barrack one night, but not limited to these,
2/n It is through this rare testimony, written from the vantage point of a child, that we know what befell the Polakiewiczs and the Zonszajns. Jackie wrote his letter following the deportation of his beloved mother and the Polakiewiczs,
2/n a high standard of living. However, she found the German occupation of France intolerable and decided to join the Resistance.
2/n And save the 66 American citizens on board, each one possessed a visa issued by Portuguese diplomat Aristides de Sousa Mendes.
2/n Born in 1913 in Krzepice, Poland, Esther Horonczyk was the youngest of five children of Rywka-Fraidla Horonczyk née Heller and Shimon Horonczyk. After Rywka's death in Poland, Esther emigrated to France with the rest of the family in 1926. In Paris, Esther
2/n Until 1939, most of the prisoners were put to work building the camp and the living quarters for the SS. The main camp of Mauthausen consisted of 32 barracks surrounded by electrified barbed wire, high stone walls, and watch towers. Due to the immense number of prisoners that 
trucks are already here and we are waiting for it to begin. I am completely calm. You — my only and dearest one, do not blame yourself for what happened, it was our destiny. We did what we could. Stay healthy and remember my words that time will heal — if not completely — then ⬇️ 
2/n from their peers and set up in a workshop to create haute couture for the wives of Nazi camp officers. Their fame spread and wives from as far away as Berlin soon found themselves on a six-month waiting list for the Auschwitz seamstresses’ garments.
2/n drastically changed the family’s situation. Elisabeth was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau along with her family in March of 1943. After six months she was put to work in the prisoner administration office, where she had to keep the “main book,” a register of all men imprisoned
2/n religion and background. Gunden joined the Mennonite organization Secours Mennonite aux Enfants in Lyon, and was sent to establish a children’s home on the seaside of Mediterranean. The children’s center became a safe haven for Spanish refugee children as well as for Jewish